Close Encounters
Documentary
Most accounts of UFO sightings can be explained by and attributed to normal earthly phenomena. Those that cannot be solved, however, have police investigators, government officials and researchers puzzled, even decades later in some cases. In each episode of "Close Encounters," two stories of alien phenomena around the world are investigated, re-created and reviewed by researchers. In the telling of each one, the program reveals to viewers facts about thousands of reported occurrences.
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Close Encounters Fire in the Sky
A surge of sightings in Colares, Brazil in 1977 causes major panic and thousands of people leave the island as a result; on a dairy farm in Australia, a mysterious flying object causes a brutal headache for the farmer.
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Close Encounters The Hitchhiker; Abberance En Provence
A teen sees an unusual pattern of lights in the sky and is terrified when they seem to dive-bomb him; a UFO sighting in France becomes one of the most scientifically investigated cases.
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Close Encounters Crop Circles & Boomerang
A Canadian farmer sees five identical bun-shaped objects; thousands report seeing a large triangular-shaped object for a 3-year period over New York's Hudson Valley.
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Close Encounters Northern Lights/Faded Giant
Cousins Billy and John Smith encounter a massive ship triple the size of a football stadium; guards at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana spot an unidentified object overhead.
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Close Encounters Second Coming and Space Rock
Three people encounter a craft and later suffer radiation poisoning symptoms; a metallic object that blasts off when touched.
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Close Encounters Missouri Flap; Highway to Hell
The first sightings of the UFO flap in Piedmont, Mo. are reported; Over 500 reports are made in the following months; A family driving to Ontario encounters mysterious lights and a cigar-shaped craft.
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Close Encounters Triangles in the Forest and High Tide
Soldiers encounter a luminous triangular-shaped craft in an English field; witnesses report a metallic object hovering over water.
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Close Encounters Nuclear Reaction and Ghost Rocket
A silent, orange football-shaped object is spotted over Loring Air Force Base in Maine; a Swedish farmer witnesses a crash into a lake.
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Close Encounters Saucerful of Secrets and Catching Some Rays
A man observes a saucer-shaped object in a lagoon; an unusual light in a field causes the driver to veer off the road.
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Close Encounters Desert Storm and Room With a View
A policeman discovers an oval-shaped object without windows or doors; a woman spots an aura of light surrounding a small tree.
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